Ficus auriculata Lour.
Ficus auriculata Lour.
Family: Moraceae
Elephant ear fig tree, Giant Indian Fig
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Tree
Distribution:
Pakistan to S. China and Peninsula Malaysia
Use: Ornamental/ Edible
Description:
Small trees; branchlets brownish, hollow; latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate, orbicular-ovate, subcoriaceous, with glands in the axils of main basal nerves. Figs cauliflorous, on short shoots from trunk or main branches, turbinate, subtended by 3 ovate, basal bracts. Staminate: in several rows towards the ostiole. Tepals 3. Stamens 2, basally connate. Gall flowers below the staminate. Pistillate: Perianth 2-or 3-lobed.